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November  5  th  and  5th,  fS 73 . 


GOLDSBORO,  N.  C.  : 

TIIE  MESSENGER  POWER  PRESS  PRINT. 

1873. 


PRESIDENT: 

CHARLES  DUFFY. 


VICE-PRESIDENTS  : 


F.  M.  ROUNTREE, 
GEO.  L.  KIRBY, 


W.  T.  EMMETT, 
L.  A.  STITH. 


SECRETARY : 

H  .  0  .  HYATT. 


TREASURER : 

J.  M.  HADLEY. 


ORA  TOR  : 

J.  E.  MILLER. 


FIRST  ANNUAL  PROCEEDINGS 


OF  THE 


Goldsboro,  N.  C.,  Nov.  4th,  1873. 

Pursuant  to  a  previous  call  a  number  of  the  physicians  of  East¬ 
ern  North  Carolina  assembled  on  Tuesday  at  the  Humphrey  House 
at  3  o’clock  P.  M. 

The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  Dr.  Kirby,  on  whose  motion 
Dr.  S.  S.  Satc-hwell  was  called  to  the  chair. 

On  motion  Dr.  H.  0.  Hyatt  was  appointed  Secretary. 

Dr.  Satchwell  on  assuming  the  chair  delivered  the  following  ad¬ 
dress  : 

Gextlemen  of  the  Eastern  Medical  Convention  : — In  re¬ 
turning  you  my  grateful  acknowledgements  for  the  honor,  unsolici¬ 
ted,  of  presiding  over  this  Convention,  I  can  but  congratulate  the 
true  members  of  tire  profession  in  Eastern  North  Carolina  upon  the 
encouraging  numbers  present  and  the  fine  spirit  manifested.  Those 
who  have  called  it  deserve  the  thanks  of  their  brethren  and  the  ap¬ 
proval  of  the  public  at  large,  whose  welfare  has  prompted  the  sacri¬ 
fice  of  our  attendance  now  and  here.  We  have  come  hither  under  no 
attractive  show  or  pageantry  of  streaming  banners  or  stirring  pa¬ 
rade  of  martial  music,  nor  has  any  party  purpose,  or  selfish  aim,  or 
individual  ambition,  or  love  of  pecuniary  gain  brought  us  together. 
Our  always  noble  and  ennobling  profession,  in  its  proverbial  devo¬ 
tion  to  peace,  quietude,  and  the  best  good  of  mankind,  soars  above 
those  petty  and  subordinate  ends  of  man’s  creation,  whether  in  its 
more  private  ministrations  to  suffering  humanity,  or  in  its  associated 
efforts  to  acquire  useful  knowledge.  These  medical  meetings  in  our 
State,  so  often  misunderstood  by  those  who  do  not  enquire,  and  so 
frequently  misrepresented  by  bad  men,  both  within  and  without  our 
regular  ranks,  are  held,  as  this  Convention  is  held,  in  the  interests  of 
science  and  humanity.  We  meet  to  form  an  Eastern  Medical  Asso- 


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ciation  which  will  bo  auxiliary  to  the  State  Medical  Society.  In  other 
words,  our  mission  here  is  to  adopt  ways  and  means  to  advance  the 
great  cause  of  improvement  in  medical  knowledge.  In  this  great 
'vork  our  parent  State  Society  has  been  laboriously  engaged  for  the 
last  twenty  years.  In  this  continuous  labor  of  love  it  has  moved  on¬ 
ward  and  upward  without  any  other  reward  or  hope  of  reward  than 
those  endearing  recollections  and  sustaining  convictions  connected 
with  the  fact  that  its  members  have  accomplished  a  vast  and  inap¬ 
preciable  good  in  relieving  human  pain,  in  assuaging  sorrow,  in  the 
prevention  of  disease  and  prolongation  of  human  life,  in  removing  the 
various  ailments  and  affirmities  of  our  nature,  and  in  saving  the  lives  of 
living  men.  We  propose  an  additional  association  which  shall  be  aux¬ 
iliary  to,  and  cooperative  with  this  humane  and  noble  work,  the  great, 
usefulness  and  magnitude  of  which  will  only  be  appreciated  in  that 
great  day  of  accounts,  when  the  hearts  and  the  deeds  of  men  will  be 
fully  known  and  admitted.  By  performing  in  this  associated 
way  this  needed  service  of  medical  improvement  and  reform  in  North 
Carolina,  we  receive  those  advantages  of  union,  interchange  of 
views  and  facts,  garnered  in  the  store  house  of  observation  and  ex¬ 
perience,  and  of  fraternity  of  feeling  and  elevation  of  purpose  which 
are  among  the  most  effective  instrumentalities  in  preserving  human 
health  and  saving  human  life.  Precious  and  perpetual  are  t  be  mem¬ 
ories  of  these  interesting  occasions,  when  new  friendships  are  form¬ 
ed  and  old  ones  strengthened,  when  medical  talent  is  discovered  and 
developed,  when  social  pleasures  are  enjoyed  amid  the  gushing  forth 
of  warm  and  generous  impulses,  and  where  there  is  a  general  p  re  val¬ 
ance  of  that  professional  enthusiasm  which  enables  us  to  know  that 
it  is  gain  to  make  this  occasional  sacrifice  of  leaving  for  a  dav  or 
two  the  toils  and  moils  of  practice  in  order  to  take  common  counsel 
as  to  those  things  which  will  improve  the  profession  and  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  community.  Hundreds  of  us  there  are  who  can 
realize  the  cherished  fact  that  these  Medical  Conventions  and  pro¬ 
fessional  re-unions  are  to  the  true-hearted  physicians  green  spots  in 
the  desert  of  life.  We  always  return  home  with  an  additional  stock 
of  knowledge,  and  with  our  hearts  improved  and  our  arms  strength¬ 
ened  for  the  exacting  duties  and  severe  labors,  now  more  than  ever 
imposed  upon  the  faithful  physician  of  this  over-powered  and  impov¬ 
erished  Southern  land. 

Let  us  proceed  then  to  the  task  of  organizing  an  Eastern  Aux¬ 
iliary  Association.  Let  us  take  steps  toward  the  formation  of  one  in 
every  county,  in  ITorth  Carolina  where  an  auxiliary  society  does  not 
already  exist.  The  more  numerously  they  are  formed  the  better  it 
will  be  for  the  cause  of  medical  science  and  the  public  interests. — 
Amid  all  the  depressions  -and  financial  panics  which  aJfiict  c  ur  strug¬ 
gling  people,  the  emphatic  truth  staves  ns  in  the  face  that  this  is 
more  than  ever  an  age  of  impetuous  thought,  and  of  lively  progress 
in  all  the  departments  of  life.  The  new  spirit  of  investigation 


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which,  from  necessity  and  the  prevalent  wants  and  condition  of  our 
fellow-citizens,  lias  seized  upon  the  public  mind  in  relation  to  all 
that  pertains  to  our  mutual  pursuits  ;  the  rapid  advance  in  all  the 
arts  and  .sciences,  and  the  urgent  demands,  recognized  particularly 
by  the  Southern  people,  to  discover  and  adopt  all  possible  means 
and  substitutes  for  our  lost  slave  labor,  puts  them  more  than  ever 
upon  their  metal,  de  velops  an  unparalleled  amount  of  self-reliance 
and  intellectual  vigor,  accompanied  by  a  love  of  enterprise  and  as¬ 
sociated  effort,  which  is  seen,  as  never  before,  in  the  varied  pursuits 
of  life,  and  imposes  new  duties  upon  medical  men — that  we  must 
not  allow  our  own  profession  to  lag  behind  in  the  grand  race  of  im¬ 
provement.  In  or  does  our  ever  humane  vocation  yield  the  palm  of 
superiority  to  any  other  profession,  either  in  the  universality  and 
magnitude  of  its  usefulness,  or  in  the  steady  advancements  it  con¬ 
tinues  to  make  and  the  splendid  achievements  it  is  making  in  the  ex¬ 
pansive  fields  of  science  and  humanity.  The  discoveries  made  and 
the  improvements  going  on  from  researches  in  anatomy,  histology, 
physiology,  pathology,  diagnosis  and  treatment,  invest  our  science 
with  new  and  increasing  interest,  and  success,  as  each  revolving  year 
and  passing  month  attests  its  constantly  increasing  worth  and  im¬ 
portance  to  mankind.  Let  us  contribute  each  his  mite  to  the  foun¬ 
dations,  stretching  from  Continent  to  Continent,  and  from  Pole  to 
Pole,  of  the  vast  and  magnificent  Super stiucture  inMediciue  which, 
widening  and  rising  higher  and  higher,  with  each  fleeing  year,  defies 
the  corrosions  of  time  and  the  assaults  of  enemies,  at  the  same  time 
that  it  emits  froms  its  towering  heights  those  golden  rays  of  tiuth 
and  light  and  those  benignant  beams  of  knowledge  which  bear  en¬ 
livening  hope  and  efficient  healing  to  the  nations.  The  great  good 
done  by  our  profession  in  enforcing  the  importance  of  personal,  fam¬ 
ily  and  school  hygiene,  its  success  in  the  application,  through  the 
proper  authorities,  of  the  laws  of  health  in  the  police  regulations  of 
towns  and  cities,  and  in  the  general  management  of  our  public  in¬ 
stitutions  of  correction,  charity  and  learning,  as  well  as  in  the  erec¬ 
tion  of  churches  and  various  other  public  buildings,  finds  a  counter¬ 
part  in  the  means  now  so  effectually  used  by  science  in  the  preven¬ 
tion  and  cure  of  those  terrible  epidemics  of  cholera,  yellow  fever,  eer- 
ebro- spinal  meningitis  and  other  malignant  diseases  which  paialvze 
whole  communities  with  terror  and  gloom,  as  the  dreaded  pestilence 
“walketh  in  darkness  and  destroyeth  at  noonday.  In  all  movements 
of  moral  reform,  in  courts  of  justice,  where  innocence  is  to  be  pro¬ 
tected  and  wrong  and  crime  punished,  in  the  varied  schemes  of  the 
educator,  philanthropist,  statesman  and  Christian,  foi  promoting  the 
welfare  and  ameliorating  the  condition  of  mankind,  ^ou  will  find 
our  profession  more  than  ever  before  an  integral  and  indispensable 
part  of  the  means  of  administration.  Wherever  thef  blazing 
torch  of  advancing  civilization  has  lighted  up  the  dark  places  and 
benighted  regions  of  earth  and  lifted  up  the  dowu-trodaen  millions, 

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you  will  find  our  standards  erected  and  our  banners  unfurled.  The 
scope  of  professional  duty  indicated  by  statement,  like  these,  shows 
the  high  obligations  imposed  upon  every  true  member  of  our  re.  - 
ponsible  calling,  as  well  as  the  necessity  for  a  superior  order  of  in¬ 
telligence  and  qualifications  on  the  part  of  every  one  who  crosses 
the  sacred  threshold  of  admission  into  its  ranks.  Than  the  duties 
devloving  upon  us  and  the  ends  sought  by  the  inspirations  of  the 
profession,  no  higher  aims  or  more  binding  obligations  ever  stirred 
the  heart  of  man  to  sacrifices  or  nerved  his  arm  to  heroic  action. 

But  gentlemen,  it  is  painful  to  know  that  there  are  shadows  which 
have  fallen  upon  and  mar  our  otherwise  bright  professional  canvass. 
Those  noble  peculiarities,  labors,  instincts  and  traditions  of  the  pro¬ 
fession  which  have  made  its  annals  illustrious  with  the  names  of  the 
best  and  noblest  in  the  fields  of  knowledge,  philosophy,  patriotism 
and  Christianity,  are  in  sad  contrast  with  that  growing  ignorance, 
disregard  of  honor  and  principle  and  unscrupulous  means  for  prac¬ 
tice  and  popularity  which  is  becoming  tolerated  and  fashionable  in 
our  ranks  to  an  unpardonable  and  ruinous  extent. 

Would  that  my  temporary  occupation  of  this  chair  would  allow 
me  to  discharge  its  duties  without  reference  to  those  matters.  But  it 
is  sr  id  that  the  best  way  to  remove  troubles  and  avoid  danger  is  to 
ineoi,  them  with  boldness  and  face  to  face.  With  all  our  boasted 
progress  in  knowledge,  to  which  I  have  alluded,  there  has  arisen 
among  the  results  of  the  late  war,  a  spirit  of  demoralization  and  de¬ 
pravity,  withering  in  its  effects  upon  our  material  pursuits  and 
blighting  the  hopes  and  prosperity  of  our  people.  Ho  lestv  has 
gone  down  below  par  and  the  obligations  of  good  faith  between  man 
and  man  are  at  a  discount.  Proof  of  this  lamentable  condition  of 
affairs  comes  from  all  quarters,  and  is  seen  in  whatever  p  jrsu:t  or 
profession  to  which  our  attention  is  turned.  In  politics  corruption 
rules.  Demagogism  has  usurped  the  place  of  patriotism.  It  sub¬ 
stitutes  ignorance  for  intel  igenee  ;  corruption  for  integrity  ;  deg¬ 
radation  for  common  decency  and  honor.  The  consequence  is  that 
political  vampires  and  charlatans  have  elboAved  aside  men  of  merit, 
of  talent,  and  of  character,  who,  disgusted  with  public  life,  as  now 
acted  out.,  have  chosen,  by  preference,  the  private  station  as  the  post 
of  honor.  In  the  profession  of  law,  there  is  not  iioav  that  measure  of 
ability  and  skill  and  attainments  at  the  bar  Avhich,  under  the  con¬ 
flicts  of  former  days  of  lawye~  with  laavyer,  face  to  face,  and  in  the 
broad  daylight,  could  not  allow  ignorance  and  meanness  to  take  any 
advantage.  Office  practice  noAv  constitutes  the  main  business  of  the 
lawyer,  and  in  these  private  retreats  and  hidden  recesses  he  can 
cheat  his  client  and  undermine  a  rival  as  never  before.  The  result 
of  the  present  system  of  legal  practice,  encouraged  by  the  sweeping 
tide  of  demoralization  evident  to  all,  is  that  the  profession  of  law 
has  degenerated  to  a  mournful  degree  in  North  Carolina.  The  pul¬ 
pit  too  has,  by  this  extraordinary  tolerance  by  the  public  sentiment 


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of  ignorance  and  vice,  become  desecrated  oftentimes,  not  alone  by 
men,  “who  step  in  where  angels  fear  to  tread,”  but  by  the  danger¬ 
ously  increasing  swarms  of  clerical  vagabonds  and  impostors  who 
manage  1  o  >  n  ak  and  crawl  with  their  poisonous  slime  into  our 
churches  and  with  sacriligious  hands  pollute  the  sacred  altars  of 
God’s  holy  temples.  These  wolves  in  sheep’s  clothing  are  prowling 
over  the  land  as  never  before,  and  while  seek'ng  to  devour  all  who 
come  in  their  way  are,  at  the  same  time,  receiving  the  alms,  praises 
and  hospitalities  of  a  large  number  of  our  best  people.  In  such  a 
deplorable  want  of  education,  now  justly  exciting  so  much  alarm  in 
the  State,  and  in  such  a  painful  condition  of  society,  it  is  not  to  be 
wondered  or  denied  that  our  profession  too  feels  the  ruinous  force  of 
the  surging  waves  of  depravity  wh‘ch  are  u  mooting  those  land¬ 
marks  of  principle  dear  to  every  true  man  aid  are  necessary  to 
stand  if  society  is  not  to  be  disintegrated  and  good  faith  and  com¬ 
mon  honesty,  now  below  par,  are  ever  to  again  rise  in  public  favor. 
These  disastrous  influences  upon  our  own  pursuits  are  seen  in  the 
growing  contempt  in  and  out  of  ou.-  profession  for  that  great  Ameri¬ 
can  code  of  medical  ethics  which  constitutes  our  platform  and  con¬ 
stitutional  government.  No  right  thinking  man  in  the  profession 
refuses  obedience  to  the  spirit  of  its  requirements,  whether  he  be¬ 
longs  or  does  not  belong  to  any  organization  rangingfrom  the  great 
American  Medical  Association  to  the  most  feeble  co-ordinate  Medi¬ 
cal  society  which  has  adopted  for  tbe  guidance  of  its  members  this 
admirable  exposition  of  medical  duty,  and  of  what  constitutes  a  gen¬ 
tleman. 

We  need  scarcely  go  beyond  the  limits  of  any  township  in  North 
Carolina  to  see  its  provisions  trampled  in  the  dust,  and  there  behold 
in  mournful  retrospection  some  regular  physician,  with  regular  di¬ 
ploma  in  hand  perhaps,  yielding  to  such  a  love  of  self  and  tempta¬ 
tions  to  practice  as  causes  him  to  commit  with  impunity  breaches  of 
right,  justice  and  fraternal  obligation.  This  and  such  as  this  has 
lowered  our  standard  greatly  and  brings  blushes  of  shame  and  sor¬ 
row  to  the  cheeks  of  every  high-minded  physician  who  looks  around 
him  at  the  degrading  exhibitions  of  policy,  of  electioneering  for  prac¬ 
tice,  and  of  medical  demagogism  now  more  rampant,  mean,  and 
contagious  in  every  county  of  our  old  commonwealth  than  ever  be¬ 
fore.  Thus  it  is  that  regular  physicians  so-called,  often  the  loudest 
and  longest  in  outside  professions  of  allegiance  to  the  code  and  to 
the  common  courtesies  and  duties  of  the  profession,  are  many  of 
them  the  readiest  and  meanest  in  violations  of  the  same.  They 
prey  with  the  appetites  of  ferocious  beasts  upon  public  ignorance 
and  credulity  and  none  are  so  dishonorable  and  industrious  as  they 
in  trying  to  make  the  community  believe  that  all  physicians  who  en¬ 
gage  in  associated  effort  and  other  means  of  advancing  medical 
knowledge  and  promoting  the  general  good,  are  a  set  of  high  charg¬ 
ers  and  selfish  agitators,  bent  only  upon  wrong  and  mischief  and 


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with  consciences  to  take  the  last  dollar  from  any  patient  who  mar 
fall  into  our  hands.  To  state  these  charges  is  but  to  refute  them  as 
we  all  know.  And  vet,,  large  numbers  of  us  are  daily  consulting 
with  this  low  tribe  of  medical  men  and  in  our  professional  inter¬ 
course  the  public  do  not  see  any  difference  or  discrimination  on  our 
part  between  them  and  those  devoted,  manly,  high-toned  medical 
brethren  who  are  affected  as  we  all  are  by  whatever  elevates  or  de- 
grades  one  another.  In  the  present  state  of  the  public  mind  the 
influence  for  evil  of  such  apostates  is  most  potential.  We  need  not 
wonder  therefore  that  the  profession  has  been  dragged  from  its  for¬ 
mer  high  estate.  We  need  not  be  surprised  that  public  virtue  has 
become  so  debauched  and  the  oublic  mind  so  imbued  with  false 

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views  of  the  profession  that  as  physicians  depending  upon  practice  for 
a  living  we  have  about  reached  a  respectable  point  of  starvation. 

The  crying  evils  and  demoralizing  influences  to  which  I  have  barely 
alluded,  as  we  daily  see  them  sweeping  over  society,  undermining  its 
foundations  and  sowing  broadest  seeds  of  corruption,  are  powerful 
in  the  production  and  giving  to  the  three  learned  professions  and 
to  every  calling  in  life  large  and  increasing  swarms  of  demagogues, 


whose  substance  and  Life-blood  come  from  ignorance,  credulity, 
and  delusion,  now  so  sadly  prevalent  in  every  community.  This  signifi¬ 
cant  truth,  so  self-evident  to  all,  appeals  in  bugle  notes  to  every 
good  man  and  true  to  aid  in  hanging  those  pretenders  and  criminals 
so  high  upon  the  pillory  of  public  condemnation  and  disgrace  that 
they  will  be  seen  and  known  of  all  men  and  at  the  same  time  con- 
demned  and  avoided  as  we  would  the  deadly  poison  of  the  Upas 
tree.  True,  the  dishonorable  success  they  so  often  obtain  is  gene¬ 
rally  of  such  short  duration  that  they  are  driven  to  new  fields  of  op- 
rations  for  the  exercise  of  the  treachery,  meanness,  and  spoils-loving 
propensities  upon  which  they  roly  for  their  ill-gotten  gains.  Still, 
ifc  shows  the  unfortunate  and  lamentable  inability  of  a  very  large  por¬ 
tion  of  every  community,  in  the  existing  state  of  the  public-mind,  to 
distinguish  between  ignorance  and  intelligence,  between  modest 
skill  and  brazen-faced  effrontery,  between  the  educated,  sensible 
gentleman,  and  the  self -conceited,  impertinent  ignoramus. 

So  far  as  our  profession  is  concerned  the  remedy  is  in  our  own 
hands,  together  with  those  reformatory  influences  arising  from  a 
judicious  system  of  popular  education.  Let  us  use  our  Medical  So¬ 
cieties  as  measures  of  reform  and  discipline  as  well  as  of  means  of 
improvement  in  knowledge.  One  of  the  obstacles  to  medical  progress 
in  North  Carolina  has  been  the  want  of  pluck  among  the  leading  phy¬ 
sicians  to  stand  square  up  to  the  line  of  duty  in  these  important  re¬ 
spects.  Medical  Societies  are  under  high  obligations  to  enforce  ethics, 
to  compel  a  compliance  with  regulations  reasonable  and  just, 
and  demanded  alike  by  the  interests  of  the  profession  and 
the  rights  of  the  people.  The  medical  world  in  all  ages  has 
recognized  this  as  a  part  of  their  mission.  Let  us  admit 


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no  unworthy  member  and  be  prompt  to  get  rid  of  any  who 
may  forfeit  all  claims  to  a  retention  of  the  common  courtesies  and 
consultations  of  the  profession.  The  institution  this  year  of  a  Board 
of  Censors  in  the  profession  of  our  State  is  a  movement  in  the 
right  direction  and  should  long  since  have  been  in  operation  even  in 
the  opinion  of  the  leading  citizens  of  the  State  generally.  The  very 
fact  that  we  have  no  power  to  inflict  penal  punishment  upon  offen¬ 
ders  is  the  strongest  argument  in  behalf  of  these  measures  of  disci¬ 
pline  and  acts  of  voluntary  legislation  among  ourselves,  providing 
for  that  social  and  professional  ostracism  which  so  often  constitutes 
a  more  efficient  punishment  than  any  law  of  the  State  could  inflict. 
All  other  organizations,  legal  and  voluntary,  deal  thus  with  their 
members,  and  why  shall  we  not  have  our  Committees  and  our  Courts 
also  to  engage  in  trials  and  to  acquit,  censure  or  expel  members. — 
If  there  is  not  enough  moral  courage  and  devotion  in  the  profession 
to  thus  come  up  to  the  relief  and  honor  of  our  name  better  that  in 
sorrow  and  shame  we  should  disband  our  State  Medical  Society.  If 
those  now  assembled  to  form  a  large  auxiliary,  which  I  trust  may  be 
a  vigorous  offspring,  competent  to  re-assure  and  re-animate  its  aged 
and  slowly  moving  parent,  should  disappoint  the  high  expectations 
formed  of  them  in  relation  to  medical  improvement,  or  should  hesi¬ 
tate  as  to  the  means  indicated  for  professional  elevation,  let  us  at 
once  halt,  retrace  our  steps  and  return  home  with  the  words  timidity 
and  failure  written  upon  our  banners. 

But  whatever  our  decision  let  us  cherish  as  incentives  to  duty  the 
glorious  recollections  which  cluster  in  noble  profusion  around  our 
illustrious  profession.  Its  proverbial  usefulness  was  never  so  much 
in  demand  as  now.  That  great  scourge  of  our  Southern  Atlantic 
slopes,  yellow  fever,  which  in  days  past  enveloped  in  sadness,  gloom 
and  the  woes  of  death,  sudden  and  awfully  extensive,  the  cities  of 
Norfolk,  Wilmington,  Charleston,  Savannah,  Mobile  and  New  Or¬ 
leans,  and  more  recently  spread,  in  its  horrible  traces  of  sorrow  and 
death,  emblems  of  grief  and  habiliments  of  woe  everywhere  around 
the*  illfated  town  of  Shreveport  and  the  depopulated  City  of  Mem¬ 
phis,  found  medical  heroes,  as  on  trying  and  dangerous  occasions 
they  are  always  found,  in  marshalling  host,  ready  to  do  and  die  in  the 
interests  of  suffering  humanity.  The  physician  who  runs  from  dis¬ 
ease  is  justly  regarded  by  the  profession  as  a  coward  and  traitor. — 
“He  who  guards  the  portals  of  the  grave  must  not  fear  death.”  In 
our  late  terrible  war  it  nobly  illustrated  that  unsurpassed  patriotism 
which  has  always  distinguished  the  true  medical  man.  No  portion 
of  our  armies  was  more  heroic  in  duty  than  the  medical  staff. — 
And  when,  upon  the  famous  ground  of  Appomattox  and  under  the 
tearful  eyes  of  our  glorious  old  Commander,  the  immortal  Lee,  our 
arms  were  stacked  and  the  Confederate  banner  was  furled,  none  of 
the  saddened  hearts  of  those  who  remained  on  duty  to  the  last  were 
more  faithful  than  the  medical  officers,  or  submitted  upon  their  re- 


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turn  home  with  more  commendable  resignation  to  the  decisions  and 
issues  of  inexorable  necessity  and  duty.  The  profession,  as  you  all 
know,  has  always  been  in  the  front  ranks  to  the  foremost  in  the 
faithful  discharge  of  all  those  high  duties  and  paramount  obliga¬ 
tions  due  to  friendship,  to  the  community,  to  good  order,  to  human¬ 
ity,  to  our  country  and  to  our  God.  Superior  to  all  other  callings 
in  its  ministrations  of  charity,  none  others  excel  it  in  those  self-sac¬ 
rifices  and  heroism  which  will  make  its  pages  of  history  immortal 
with  the  records  of  the  illustrious  deeds  and  lives  of  its  noble  sl- 
vans,  philosophers,  heroes,  Christians  and  martyrs.  Wherever  be¬ 
nevolence  is  needed,  or  the  cause  of  education  calls  for  votaries,  or 
patriotism  needs  a  friend,  or  human  suffering  calls  for  relief,  or 
Christianity  requires  defence,  you  will  find  the  faithful  physician 
among  the  readiest  of  the  ready  for  labor  and  sacrifice.  He  refuses 
to  party  what  was  intended  for  mankind.  Since  the  war  no  one 
has  been  more  ready  and  desirous  to  allay  the  troubled  waters  and 
to  heal  the  wounds  incident  to  those  difficulties  and  disruptions 
which  ha^e  prevailed  between  the  North  and  South  but  are  now 
passing  away,  as  we  trust,  forever.  Upon  the  mountains  and  by  the 
sea,  through  every  valley  and  plain,  everywhere  throughout  the 
wide  expanse  of  this  Southern  land,  so  lately  the  scenes  of  tramp¬ 
ling  soldiery,  roaring  artillery,  and  the  bloody  conflicts  of  contend¬ 
ing  hosts,  you  will  find  no  heart  more  responsive  than  his  to  the 
ties  of  affection  or  the  calls  of  sorrow  and  distress,  and  none  more 
full  of  sympathy  for  the  down-trodden  and  struggling  people  of  this: 
oppressed  Southern  land.  Wearied  as  the  patriotic  and  true-heart¬ 
ed  medical  man  is  with  the  passions  and  issues  of  those  partisan 
struggles  and  sectional  strife  which  have  too  long  kept  up  to  the  in¬ 
jury  of  all,  national  discord  and  sectional  evils,  he  yields  to  none  in 
love  for,  and  devotion  to,  the  South,  while  at  the  same  time  no  one 
surpasses  him  in  standing  up  squarely  for  the  country  and  our 
whole  country. 

He  has  yielded  to  none,  since  the  bright  and  beautiful  flag  of  the 
Confederacy  which  so  many  of  us  followed  with  a  high  and  holy 
fervor  of  patriotism,  from  the  beginning,  till  it  was  furled  and  furl- 
ed  forever,  in  devotion  to  the  old  flag  of  the  Union.  No  one  follow¬ 
ed  the  fortunes  of  the  Confederacy  with  more  earnestness  and  patri¬ 
otism  until  it  fell,  and  its  banner  was  no  longer  flung  to  the 
breeze.  From  the  date  of  the  restoration  of  the  Union,  he  has  sub¬ 
mitted  to  the  fates  that  were  against  us,  and  has  felt  it  a  common 
duty  to  stand  firmly  by  the  whole  country,  as  our  own  and  only 
land.  That  common  duty  will  be  frankly  acknowledged  and  brave¬ 
ly  observed  by  the  great  body  of  the  Southern  people.  If  the  un¬ 
certain  future  should  involve  the  nation  in  a  war  with  any  foreign 
power,  the  government  will  be  upheld  with  as  much  loyalty  and 
earnestness  by  the  South  as  by  the  North. 


EASTERN  MEDICAL  CONVENTION. 


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On  motion  of  Dr.  Miller,  a  committee  upon  permanent  organiza¬ 
tion  was  appointed  as  follows  : 

Drs.  Hadley,  Rountree,  Stitli  and  Duffy. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  Hadley,  committees  upon  Constitution  and 
Candidates  for  membership  were  appointed  as  follows  : 

On  Constitution,  Drs.  Raison,  Hyatt,  Gilbert,  and  Seawell.  On 
Candidates  for  membership,  Drs.  W.  T.  Ennett,  G.  M.  Roberts,  W. 
L.  Anderson,  G.  L.  Kirby,  and  Isaac  E.  Green. 

There  were  twenty -nine  gentlemen  present. 

The  committee  on  candidates  retired  for  consultation. 

In  the  absence  of  the  committee  various  gentlemen  were  called  on 
for  speeches,  all  of  whom  declined,  until  Dr.  Faison  was  called, 
who  addressed  the  meeting  in  a  brief  speech  chiefly  detailing  some 
of  his  experience  in  practice.  Other  gentlemen  followed,  giving 
items  in  their  experience. 

The  committee  on  candidates  for  membership  reported  as  fol¬ 
lows  : 


F.  M.  Rountree.  Hookerton. 

It.  W.  Faison,  Faisons  Depot. 

W.  J.  Gilbert,  Fremont. 

.J.  F.  Miller,  joldsboro. 

L.  A.  Stith,  Wilson. 

W.  L.  Best,  Johnson’s  Mill,  Pitt  Co. 

H.  O.  Hyatt,  Kinston. 

G.  F.  Lucas,  Point  Caswell  N.  Hanover. 
Emmett  Robinson,  Lenoir  Co. 

J.  M.  Hadley,  La-Grange. 

Isaac  E.  Green.  Ilalf'ax  Co. 

V  N.  Seawell,  Wallace,  Duplin  Co. 

G.  VI.  Roberts,  Mt-Olive,  N.  C. 


W.  H.  W.  Cobb,  Goldsboro. 

J.  C.  M.  Loftin,  Kenansville. 

J.  B.  Kennedy,  Wayne  Co. 

\I.  W.  Harper,  Johnson  Co. 

Chas.  Duffy,  Newbern, 

J.  D.  Spicer,  Goldsboro. 

S.  S.  Satchweil,  R.  Point,  N.  Hanover. 
P.  W.  Wooley,  La-Grange. 

G.  L.  Kirby,  Goldsboro. 

L.  B.  Stevens,  Mt-Olive. 

VV.  L.  Anderson,  Wilson  Co. 

W.  T.  Ennett,  Rocky  P.,  N.  Hanover. 


On  motion  this  report  was  re-committed  to  the  same  committee. 

Convention  adjourned  to  meet  at  7\  o’clock. 

7  ^o’clock  P.  M.,  Convention  met  according  to  adjournment. 

The  committee  on  constitution  through  their  chairman,  Dr.  Fai¬ 
son  reported  a  draft  of  a  constitution  which  upon  being  read,  was  re¬ 
ceived  unanimously. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  Miller,  the  proposed  constitution  was  read  and 
adopted  by  sections. 

On  motion  Art.  7  was  referred  back  to  the  committee;  with  this  ex¬ 
ception  the  constitution  as  a  whole,  was  unanimously  adopted. 


ARTICLE  I. 


The  title  of  this 
tion.” 


TITLE  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

Society  shall  be  the  “Eastern  Medical  Associa- 
ARTICLE  II. 


OBJECTS  OF  THIS  SOCIETY. 

The  objects  of  this  Society  shall  be  the  advancement  of  Medical 
knowledge,  the  elevation  of  professional  character,  and  the  pro- 


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motion  of  all  measures  of  a  professional  nature  that  are  adapted  to 
the  relief  of  suffering  humanity. 

This  Society  shall  be  auxiliary  to  the  State  Medical  Society. 

ARTICLE  III. 

MEMBERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

Sec.  1.  This  Society  shall  consist  of  permanent  members,  dele¬ 
gates,  associates,  and  honorary  members. 

Sec.  2.  The  permanent  members  shall  consist  of  such  regular 
physicians  as  shall  be  admitted  on  motion  of  a  member,  provided,  he 
receive  two  thirds  of  the  votes  present,  and  the  member  thus  ad¬ 
mitted  shall  be  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  of  the  Society.  He 
must  first  sign  the  constitution  and  pay  the  assessments. 

Sec.  3.  The  delegates  shall  receive  their  appointment  from  the 
county  Societies. 

Sec.  4.  Every  delegate  before  admission  to  a  seat  in  this  Socie- 
\  ty,  shall  produce  a  certificate  signed  by  the  President  or  Secretary 
of  the  county  Society. 

Sec.  5.  Each  delegate  shall  hold  his  appointment  for  six  months, 
or  until  another  is  appointed  to  succeed  him. 

Sec.  6.  Every  delegate  shall  be  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  of 
attending  upon  the  deliberations  of  the  Society,  and  take  part  in  its 
discussions,  but  shall  not  be  allowed  to  vote,  nor  shall  he  be  eligible 
for  office. 

ARTICLE  I Y. 

OF  THE  OFFICERS. 

Sec.  1.  The  officers  of  the  Society  shall  be  a  President,  four 
Vice  Presidents,  a  Secretarv  and  Treasurer. 

Sec.  2.  A  committee  of  five  members  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
President  to  nominate  officers,  and  honorary  members,  and  those 
nominated  shall  be  voted  on  viva  voce. 

Sec.  3.  None  but  permanent  members  shall  be  eligible  to  the 
office  of  President,  Vice  President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Sec.  4.  There  shall  be  appointed  annually  an  executive  com¬ 
mittee. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  executive  committee  to  look 
after  the  interest  of  this  association  in  the  interim  of  its  meetings, 
to  have  due  regard  to  the  status  of  members,  to  make  recommenda¬ 
tions  for  the  good  of  the  association,  and  for  the  improvement  of 
the  profession. 

Sec. 6.  There  shall  be  a  Medical  Court  for  the  trial  of  members  against 
whom  charges  and  specifications  are  made,  and  shall  adopt  their 
own  rules  of  government.  They  shall  not  have  power  to  acquit, 
censure  or  expel,  but  shall  make  recommendations  in  that  relation 
to  the  association — which  body  shall  acquit,  censure  or  expel  after 
examination  of  the  evidence,  and  without  debate.  Two  thirds  of 
the  members  present  shall  be  necessary  to  expel. 


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ARTICLE  Y. 

DUTIES  OF  OFFICERS. 

Sec.  1.  The  President  shall  preside  at  the  meetings,  preserve 
order  and  perform  such  duties  as  custom  and  parliamentary  usage 
may  require. 

Sec.  2.  The  Yice  Presidents  when  called  upon  shall  assist  the 
President  in  the  performance  of  his  duties,  and  during  the  absence, 
or  at  the  request  of  the  President,  one  of  them  shall  officiate  in  his 
place.  They  shall  not  be  eligible  for  two  terms  in  succession. 

Sec.  3.  The  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  correspondence  and 
perform  such  other  duties  as  generally  appertain  to  that  office  ; 
and  shall  keep  correct  minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Society, 
and  shall  fairly  transcribe  the  same  when  approved  in  a  book  kept 
for  the  purpose.  He  shall  have  charge  of  all  papers  belonging  to 
the  Society,  other  than  those  appertaining  to  the  Treasurer,  and 
shall  give  due  notice  of  the  regular  meetings,  and  receive  such 
compensation  as  the  Society  may  from  year  to  year  determine. 

Sec.  4.  The  Treasurer  shall  receive  all  moneys  belonging  to  the 
Society,  and  give  receipts  for  all  such  sums  paid  into  his  hands  to 
the  individual  paying  the  same,  and  disburse  them  as  directed,  pre¬ 
serving  vouchers  for  the  same.  He  shall  annually  present  a  state¬ 
ment  of  the  finances  to  the  Society  which  shall  be  referred  to  the  execu¬ 
tive  committee  to  be  audited. 

ARTICLE  YI. 

MEETINGS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

The  Society  shall  hold  its  meetings  twice  a  year.  The  time  and 
place  of  each  meeting  shall  be  determined  by  a  vote  of  the  Society. 

ARTICLE  YII. 

FUNDS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

Sec.  1.  Funds  for  defraying  current  expenses  shall  be  raised  by 
3emi-annual  assessments  on  permanent  members. 

Sec.  2.  Each  permanent  member  after  having  been  duly  elected, 
and  having  signed  the  constitution,  shall  pay  the  sum  of  one  dollar 
as  an  admission  fee,  and  be  subject  to  the  semi-annual  assessments 
of  the  Society,  with  the  exception  of  the  first  semi-annual  assess¬ 
ment  of  the  year  of  his  admission. 

Sec.  3.  Should  a  permanent  member  fail  to  pay  the  assessment 
for  two  successive  years  after  having  been  notified  by  the  Treasurer 
of  Lis  delinquencies,  his  name  shall  be  stricken  from  the  list  of 
members. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 

CODE  OF  ETHICS. 

This  Society  adepts  as  a  part  of  its  regulations,  that  part  of  the 


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Code  of  Ethics  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  wliicli  lias 
been  published  by  its  order. 

ABTICLE  IX. 

PROVISONS  FOE  AMENEMBNTS. 

Every  proposal  for  altering  or  amending  this  constitution, 
shall  be  made  in  writing,  and  if  such  alteration  or  amendment  re¬ 
ceives  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  members  present,  it  shall  be  adopt¬ 
ed,  but  if  objections  be  made,  the  alterations  or  amendments  shall 
lie  over  until  the  next  regular  meeting.  When,  if  it  receives  the 
vote  of  two  thirds  of  the  members  present,  it  shall  be  adopted. 

BITLES  OE  OBDEB. 

1st.  The  President,  or  in  his  absence,  one  of  the  Vice  President, 
shall  call  the  Society  to  order,  or  in  case  of  the  absence  of  all  of  thete 
officers,  a  presiding  officer  shall  be  chosen  by  a  majority  of  the  mem¬ 
bers  present. 

2nd.  The  appointment  of  a  committee  to  examine  the  creden¬ 
tials  of  delegates. 

3rd.  The  report  of  the  committee  on  credentials,  also  the  claims 
of  those  desiring  to  become  permanent  members. 

4th.  Calling  the  roll. 

5th.  Beading  the  minutes  of  the  preceeding  meetings. 

6tn.  Any  business  requiring  early  consideration,  may,  by  per¬ 
mission,  be  introduced. 

7th.  Correspondence  shall  be  read  by  the  Secretary. 

8th.  Written  communications  upon  Medical  subjects  may  be 
read  and  discussed. 

9th.  Oral  communications  may  be  heard  and  discussed. 

10th.  Election  of  officers. 

11th.  Selection  of  place  for  next  meeting. 

12th.  Unfinished  and  miscellaneous  business. 

13th.  Adjournment. 

An  enquiry  was  made  by  Dr.  Miller  if  giving  a  certificate  to 
a  Quack  Doctor  concerning  the  efficacy  of  a  secret  remedy,  debar- 
ecl  a  man  from  becoming  a  member  of  this  association. 

To  which  Dr.  Loftin  replied  that,  he  supposed  Dr.  Miller’s  enquiry 
was  intended  for  him.  He  then  went  on  to  state  to  the  convention 
that,  before  he  ever  studied  medicine,  he  had  been  cured  of 
an  ulcer  by  one  “Tew,”  and  that  after  he  graduated  in  medicine 
“Tew”  wrote  him  for  a  certificate.  He  says  that  he  did  not  give 
Tew  a  certificate,  but  wrote  him  a  letter  about  it.  He  states  that  at 
the  time  he  wrote  to  Tew,  he  thought  it  was  not  quite  right  to 
recommend  the  remedy,  though  he  did  not  know  that  it  was  unpro¬ 
fessional  to  do  so.  He  moreover  went  on  to  state  that  Tew  had 
distorted  and  culled  from  his  letter  a  certificate  which  he  (Tew) 
caused  to  be  published  in  the  Goldsboro  Messenger. 


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eastern  medical 


CONVENTION. 


Dr.  Wooley  then  arose  and  stated  that  he  was  somewhat  in  the 
same  predicament,  some  time  ago  he  says,  while  in  Goldsboro,  a  Mr. 
Hunter  gave  him  some  stuff,  and  told  him  to  put  it  on  a  sore  that 
he  (Wooley)  had  on  his  neck.  This,  he  says,  he  did.  Some  time 
afterwards  Hunter  wrote  to  him  about  it,  and  asked  him  how  did 
the  remedy  act.  Which  he  replied  to  by  saying  that  it  had  cured 
the  sore,  or  at  least  it  had  disappeared.  From  this  letter  JDr.  Woo¬ 
ley  alleged,  Hunter  took  extracts  and  published  them  in  the  “Golds¬ 
boro  Messenger,”  and  in  private  circulars  in  the  shape  of  a  certi¬ 
ficate.  He  further  stated  that  this  was  done  without  his  knowledge 
or  consent. 


The  committee  on  candidates  for  memberships  then  retired,  and 
then  submitted  their  report  with  the  following  amendment. 

We,  recommend  I)rs.  I.C.  M.  Loftin  and  P.  W.  Wooley  for  mem- 
bership,  on  condition  that  they  disavow  publicly,  any  desire  to  en¬ 
courage  Quackery,  and  state  publicly  that  they  did  not  know  that,  in 
giving  a  certificate  in  the  manner  they  did,  they  violated  the  Code 
of  Ethics. 

W.  T.  ENNETT, 

G.  M.  ROBERTS, 

W.  S.  ANDERS  OH, 

G.  L.  KIRBY, 

I.  E.  GREEN, 

Drs.  Loftin  and  Wooley  thereupon  arose  and  stated  before  the 
meeting  that  they  had  no  desire  to  encourage  Quackery,  and  at  the 
time  of  giving  the  certificates  did  not  know  that  they  were  viola¬ 
ting  the  Code  of  Ethics. 

Whereupon  it  was  moved  and  seconded  that  the  report  of  the 
committee  be  received. 

The  following  gentlemen  came  forward,  signed  the  constitution, 
and  paid  their  fees  to  the  Treasurer : 


0 


Committee. 


j 


H.  O.  Hyatt,  Kinston  N.  1  . 

W.  L-  Entiett,  Rock}7  P.  New  Hanover. 
H.  W.  Faison,  Faisons  Depot. 

Ge<3.  L.  Kirby,  Goldsboro. 

F.  M.  Roi. ntre  ,  Hookerton. 

\V.  II.  H.  Cobb,  Goldsboro. 

G.  F.  Lucas.  Point  Caswell,  N. Hanover. 
A"  N.  Seawell,  Wallace,  Duplin  Co. 

M.  E.  Robinson,  Kinston. 

W.  L.  Anderson,  Wilson  Co. 

Isaac  E.  Green,  Weldon. 

G.  M.  Roberts,  Mt-Olive  N.  C. 

S.  B.  Flowers,  Mt-Olive,  N.  C. 


|I.  0.  M.  Loftin.  Kenansville. 

L.  A  S t i t h ,  Wilson. 

A.  J.  Gilbert,  Fremont. 

W.  L.  Best,  Johnsons  Mill,  Pitt  Co. 

,\L  N.  Harper,  Johnson  Co. 

J.  B.  Kennedy,  Wayne  Co. 

O.  Duffy.  Jr.,  Newbern. 

J.  M.  Hadley,  La-Grange. 

P.  W.  Wooley,  “ 

S.  S.  Satchwell,  Rocky  P.,  N.  Hanover. 
J.  D.  Spicer,  Goldsboro. 

I.  F.  Miller,  “  “ 


LTpon  resolution  of  Dr.  Faison,  the  convention  was  now  changed 
into  an  association. 


On  motion  of  Dr.  Kirby,  the  chair  appointed  a  committee  on 
nomination  of  officers. 

The  committee  reported  through  their  chairman,  Dr.  Miller,  the 


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following  nominations.  For  President,  Chas.  Duffy,  Newbern.  For 
First  Vice  President,  F.  M.  Rountree,  Hookerton.  For  Second 
Vice  President,  George  L.  Kirby,  Goldsboro.  For  Third  Vice  Pre¬ 
sident,  W.  T.  Ennett,  Rocky  Point.  For  Fourth  Vice  President,  L. 
A.  Stith,  Wilson. 

Orator,  H.  W.  Faison. 

The  chairman  called  for  a  vote  which  resulted  in  the  unanimous 
election  of  the  foregoing  nominations. 

Dr.  Faison  begged  leave  to  decline  the  Orator’s  place  which  had 
been  conferred  on  him  on  account  of  his  age.  He  went  on  to  state 
that  he  had  received  enough  honor  from  his  profession,  and  that 
now,  he  preferred  being  a  worker  m  the  ranks,  and  that  the  honors 
should  be  bestowed  upon  younger  members. 

Dr.  Hyatt  was  then  nominated  who  declined  on  the  grounds  of 
being  Secretary. 

Dr.  Miller  was  then  nominated,  who,  after  finding  that  the  Society 
was  not  disposed  to  Iqfc.him  off,  accepted. 

The  President  elect,  was  then  conducted  to  the  chair,  and  thanked 
the  association  for  the  honor  conferred  in  a  neat  and  appropriate 
speech. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  Satchwell,  the  President  was  requested  to  ap¬ 
point  a  committee  whose  duty  should  be  to  map  out  work  for  th  e 
association. 

The  committee  after  retiring  a  short  time,  returned  and  submitted 
the  following  report : 

TO  THE  EASTERN  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION. 

The  committee  appointed  to  recommend  suitable  Medical  sub¬ 
jects  upon  which  it  may  be  desirable  to  have  papers  written,  and 
presented,  beg  leave  to  recommend  the  following,  and  also  that  the 
President  shall  appoint  a  chairman  and  two  other  members  upon 
each  subject  named.  We  recommend  that  he  shall  in  open  meet¬ 
ing,  consult  the  members  as  to  their  preferences  of  subjects.  First, 
Pathology  and  treatment  of  Ty  phoid  Fever ;  second,  Puerpural 
Convulsion  ;  third,  Diphtheria  ;  fourth,  Cholera  Infantum  ;  fifth,  Ta¬ 
bes  Mesenterica  ;  sixth,  Cerebro  Spinal  Meningitis  ;  seventh,  Use 
and  Abuse  of  Tobacco  ;  eighth,  UseBand  Abuse  of  Alchohol ;  ninth, 
Ovariotomy  ;  tenth,  Tracheotomy  ;  eleventh,  Comminuted  Fracture ; 
twelth,  Rupture  of  Perineum  ;  thirteenth,  Definition  of  Medical 
Gentleman;  fourteenth,  School  Hygiene;  fifteenth,  Trismus  Nascen- 
tium  ;  sixteenth,  Treatment  of  Ulcers  ;  seventeeth,  Sulphate  of 
Quinine  and  its  Substitutes  ;  eighteenth,  Blenorrhagia. 

The  committee  are  aware  that  there  are  various  subjects  of  a 
practical  and  useful  character  in  the  different  departments  of  Medi¬ 
cine  which  may  be  written  upon  and  discussed  to  much  advantage. 
Therefore  they  recommend  that  a  standing  invitation  be  now  ex- 


EASTERN  MEDICAL  CONVENTION.  IT 

tended  to  all  tlie  members  for  volunteer  papers  suitable  to  be  pre¬ 
sented.  .  Respectfully  submitted. 

S.  S.  SATCHWELL,] 

GEO.  L.  KIRBY,  \ 

ISAAC  E.  GREEN,  ^Committee. 

E.  M.  ROUNTREE,  | 

GEO.  F. LUCAS,  J 

On  motion  the  report  was  received. 

The  thanks  of  the  members  were  tendered  Drs.  Satchwell  and  Hy¬ 
att,  as  officers  of  the  convention. 

Dr.  Satchwell  was  requested  to  furnish  a  copy  of  his  able  and  in¬ 
teresting  address  for  publication. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  Satchwell  the  association  adjourned  to  meet  to¬ 
morrow  at  8J  o’clock,  A.  M. 

8|  A.  M.,  NOV.5TH. 

Association  met  pursuant  to  adj  ournment.  Dr.  Duffy  President, 
in  the  chair.  On  motion,  the  President  appointed  the  following 
gentlemen  as  chairmen  of  the  various  sections  : 

G.  M.  Roberts,  Typhoid  Fevrer  ;  W.  J.  Gilbert,  Puerperal  Convul¬ 
sions  ;  W.  T.  Ennett,  Diphtheria  ;  S.  B.  Flowers,  Cholera  Infantum; 
L.  A.  Stitch,  Tabes  Mesenterica ;  G.  F.  Lucus,  Cerebro  -  Spinal 
Meningitis  ;  Y.  N.  Seawell,  Use  and  Abuse  of  Tobacco  ;  H.  W.  Faison , 
Use  and  Abuse  of  Alcohol  ;  Isaac  E.  Green,  Ovariotomy;  W.  H.  II. 
Cobb,  Comminuted  Fracture  ;  W.  S.  Anderson,  Tracheotomy  ;  S.  S. 
Satchwell,  School  Hygiene;  H.  O.  Hyatt,  Rupture  of  Perineum  ;  J. 
B.  Kennedy,  Trismus  Nascentium  ;  J.  F.  Miller,  Treatment  of  Ulcers; 
G.  L.  Kirby,  Quinia  and  its  Substitutes  ;  M.  E.  Robinson,  Blenorrha- 
gia  ;  F.  M.  Rountree.  Cancer. 

On  motion  the  President  appointed  the  following  gentlemen  as 
Executive  Committee,  S.  S.  Satchwell,  H.  W.  Faison  and  W.  T. 
Ennet. 

Resolved ,  That  the  thanks  of  the  Association  be,  and  are  hereby 
tendered  to  the  Physicians,  Drs.  Miller,  Kirby,  Spicer,  and  Cobb,  and 
citizens  of  Goldsboro  for  their  hospitality  and  kindness  to  the  mem¬ 
bers  during  their  stay  with  them,  and  to  the  Railroads  for  passim 
them  for  one  fare,  and  to  Dr.  Wright,  the  gentlemanly  Proprietor 
of  the  Humphrey  House,  for  his  kindness  in  giving  them  the  use  of 
his  elegant  hall. 

Ordered  that  the  Association  meet  next  in  Wilson,  the  second 
Tuesday  in  February,  1874. 

Drs.  Stith,  Rountree,  Anderson,  and  Gilbert,  were  appointed 
Committee  of  arrangements  for  our  next  meeting. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  Kirby,  the  Association  adjourned. 


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